Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESTension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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